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    Candidates for the presidential nomination in both major parties
make hundreds of speeches in their campaigns, speeches that vary in
content depending on where they are given and the audience being
addressed.
    But every candidate has a body of material, presented in most of his
speeches, that varies little from audience to audience. This material
represents the heart of his message to the voters as he moves around
the country.
    This is the fifth in a series of texts of such ''stock speeches,''
heard by millions of Americans but rarely published at length, that
have been collected by The New York Times.
c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service
              The Stock Speech: John B. Connally
    Of the whole of the $28.5 billion deficit we had last year half of
it - almost half of it - was with Japan. They ran a $12.5 billion
surplus - at least that's what I hear. Now, why? Because they won't
take our citrus, because they grow Mandarin oranges. And they won't
take our beef - or very much of it - because they produce Kobe beef,
which they sell retail for $30 a pound. They won't take our computers
and so forth - sophisticated equipment - because they want to
manufacture it. They want to get into business. But they expect us to
take their automobiles and their television sets. It's very simple.
    The president of the United States should have said to Prime
Minister Ohira when he was over here that if you're not prepared to
take our citrus and our beef and equalize our trade account, then
you'd better be prepared to sit on the docks of Yokahama, watching
your own television sets because they're not coming into the United
States.
    In the military establishment we've been declining - we've been
declining for 20 years in the military establishment because again
the political leaders in this country won't level with the American
people. They've had the wrong perception and I don't want to talk
about your president. I was amazed - I was amazed to hear in an ABC
interview here a couple of weeks ago when he sat and looked at us and
I happened to be watching him.
    And he said that he changed his mind in the last week. But I've had
the biggest change in mind that I've had in two-and-a-half years. I
don't know what they read down in Plains, but I can't imagine a
graduate from the United States Naval Academy who reads and
supposedly keeps up with world events who sits there two and a half,
almost three, years with the perception that the Soviet Union is
their kind, generous and understanding, well meaning and well
intentioned people who are willing to respond to kind and good
intentions.
    There's not anything in their history to lead anybody to believe
that and he's said 'I changed my mind about.' Well when you have the
wrong perception you make the wrong judgment, you develop the wrong
strategy. And because we've had the wrong judgments on the part of a
great many of those bureaucrats there in Washington that have been
handling the State Department and other departments in Washington for
20 years, we permitted the military establishment in this nation to
decline.
    I'll give you a couple of examples. Again I refer to the years of
the Eisenhower presidency - when he was president in 1955, 56 percent
of the total budget of the United States was spent for the military
establishment. That might have been too high, but you know what it is
today? Twenty-three percent! When I was secretary of the Navy in 1961
we had over a thousand first-class ships of the line. Today we have
fewer that 400 - fewer than had before World War II.
    That's what's happened, but we could change that. There's no mystery
about it. You just don't cancel the B-1 bomber without getting
anything - and you don't cancel the neutron bomb and you don't refuse
to build the MX missile and you don't refuse to build the Trident and
you don't refuse all these weapons systems that you know you have to
have in order to maintain a strategic nuclear superiority. You spend
more money for defense.
    I don't want to spend more money than we have to. But that's one
area where I think we have to spend more money. And it's just that
simple. There's no great mystery about it. You have to spend money if
you want a defense establishment capable of defending the freedoms of
this country and the freedoms of the nation of the world. There's no
other answer to it.
    The Soviets are going to respond. They're expansionists in
character. That those are their aspirations they've made very clear
to us for years and years and years. They believe in world domination
of the Soviet ideology of communism. They've made no bones about it.
And all of you will remember the words when Nikita Khrushchev when he
said ''we're going to bury you.'' And they haven't changed their mind
one iota. That's what they're about to do. That's what they've set
about to do.
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NYT Undated: to do.
    We can change all that. One of the things we have to do to change is
to become self-sufficient in energy. There's no great mystery about
energy. And we all talk about solar energy, and geothermal energy and
the fusion and the fast-breeder reactor and oil shales and wind and
wave action and gasahol and all the other things you can think of -
and they're all coming. They're all going to be a part of our future.
But it's going to be in the next century. They're not going to
contribute any substantial amount of energy for this nation and its
uses and its high quality during this century - during the next 20
years.
    The three principal sources of energy in America are going to come
from coal, oil and gas and nuclear power. It's that simple. We can
use more coal. We should mine more coal and burn more coal. And the
ideas that we're going to pollute the air is just not so. We have
percipitators, we have scrubbers. They can go on every stack on every
utility and every industry and will eliminate 94 percent of all the
pollutants from the use of burning coal. And that's pretty good.
You're not going to see any black smoke belching out of the
smokestacks - you're going to see just a little whisper of white
smoke. It'll look like steam there. It's not going to bother us one
bit. And that's what we need to do.
    And we need to change need to change some of the inane mining laws
in this country, because we could repair the ground surface, make it
look better than it was even than when we started.
    You know everyone's concerned about the environment. So am I. I
don't want to desecrate the environment. I don't want to have foul
air and impure water. But you know the worst environment I can think
of? to be cold, hungry and unemployed!
    We can do something about all this. All we have to do is mine more
coal and burn more coal and open up more public lands to explore for
oil and gas and build more nuclear power plants in less time. That's
all.
    And you know last year that everybody's afraid of nuclear power. I
say everybody is but a lot of people are. It just occurs to my mind
the idea that this is the most insidious thing the scientists have
visited upon us and we have to recognize the facts for what they are,
and the facts are that last year we lost 188 lives in the coal, 122
lives in the oil and gas industry. Zero in the nuclear power field.
It is the safest, cheapest form of energy in America today - by far.
Now all we have to do is make up our minds we're going to quit taking
scientific advice from Jane Fonda, and Ralph Nader and go on and
build some nuclear power plants.
    The first thing we need to do in the bureaucracy - it's now costing
Americans about $125 billion a year just to file the paperwork. I
don't know whether you ever saw it, but in the paper there was a
story about the Small Business Administration - a government agency -
that testified on The Hill about small business. And they said the
government requirements for paperwork were costing small businesses
in this country $12.7 billion a year. And they gave an example of a
Virginia contractor - a little business he built himself. He had 200
employees. He did $22 million gross all last year. And in order to
comply with the government paperwork it cost him $72,000. In
addition, he spent 9,000 hours of his and his employees time to fill
out 1,100 different forms! Now that has to stop. We can't go on like
that.
    How do you stop it? I think the way is to give a blanket exemption
for all small business maybe that does less than $25 million gross or
has fewer than 250 employees or a combination of those two things to
about 90 percent of rules and regulations of OSHA and EPA and all the
rest of them. Just exempt all these small businesses. And the big
businesses - don't worry about them. They can hire the lawyers - and
I don't want to put all those lawyers out of business They can hire
the lawyers and the auditors and the accountants. They can wrestle
with each other with their rules and regulations and they can meet
them on even terms. But the small businessmen in this country can't,
and we have to change and get some of this load of oppressive
Government rules and regulations off of the back of the small
businessmen in this country who provide the jobs, who creates the
economic vitality and who creates the wealth of this nation. Big
business doesn't do it. Small business does it.
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NYT Undated: does it.
    Anything you want to get done, we can get it done. I think it has to
be done. I think we live in a changing world - and there's no
question about that. The world has changed but our perception of it
hasn't changed as much as the times have changed.
    We still think we live in a world in which the United States is at
the apn't living in that kind of a world.
We live in a world of fierce competition. Economically, politically,
militarily and every other way. And we have to change our methods of
doing things.
    We have to change our mode of operation in international affairs. We
have to recognize that we're in a struggle. And we're going to be for
a long, long time with the Soviet Union. And we're in a struggle with
the Soviet Union over the minds of people. And we have to recognize
that they're an oppressive society. That they're an acquisitive race
of people and an acquisitive nation. They want to acquire. They want
to dominate. And they are. And they will. Everytime there's a vacuum
anywhere in this world, or any time there's an opportunity anywhere
in this world.
    It's not just Afghanistan. It was Angola, it was Ethiopia and South
Yemen. Now it's Afghanistan. It's trouble in Iran - and there's not
any question but what they're deeply involved in my judgment in
what's happening in Iran and what has happened in Iran. There's no
question but what they're responsible.
    They subsidized and they support the North Vietnamese who are moving
in just as aggressive and brutal a fashion as anything we've ever
seen in the history of this nation through Cambodia, and into
Vietnam. And we all grieve about the boat people and we ask ourselves
how many will the various nations take, but we never ask ourselves
the question 'why the boat people?' We see the staving children with
distended stomachs - the little arms and legs that look like bamboo
poles. The head all out of proportion with the body, starving by the
tens of thousands. And we grieve and we ship food and we ship
medicine.
    We can't get to them because the cruel rulers of that country won't
even let medical supplies and food get to the starving men and women
and children of that country. And we deplore such conditions, but we
don't ask why - who caused it. Why are there boat people? There are
boat people because of cruelty and the atrocities of the North
Vietnamese supported and sustained by the Soviet Union are forcing
them out of their own country into the open waters of the world. Why
are they starving and why is genocide occurring in Cambodia? Because
of the cruelty and the atrocities of the North Vietnamese supported
and sustained by the Soviet Union.
    And yet we let Castro convene the nations of the third world and
Cuba to extol the virtues of the Russian influence and the Russian
orbit inviting all those countries to come into the grasp of the
Russian Bear. For what? To be oppressed. To be starved. And yet we
say nothing.
    We don't really call the Russian Bear what he is. A cruel, unhuman
animal. That's what the Russian Bear is. And we're in that kind of a
struggle. And we're going to have to learn to deal - not just with
military strength and economic strength. We're going to have to deal
with psychological warfare and political warfare. And we're going to
have to say to the nations of the world that this the foe. This is
the problem. And we have to be prepared. We have to be there.
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NYT Undated: be there.
    I said on October 11 of last year, in 1979, that time was not on the
side of peace in the Middle East. I said that the Middle East was the
most vital and most volatile part of the world, and if we could have
troops in South Korea, if we could have 325,000 troops in Western
Europe in NATO, where I don't think there's any danger of Russian
movements - then, indeed, we could provide some military security in
the Middle East.
    And I recommended the creation of a Fifth Fleet and stationing those
ships off the coast of Oman to guard the Straits of Hormuz through
which the oil that supplies Western civilization flows. And I
suggested we lease the oil fields in the Sinai and to put military
air components there so that we would have a presence in the Middle
East. That I reiterate it and I repeat it today.
    And since that time what's happened? We had our Embassy captured and
our people incarcerated, blindfolded and handcuffed. Since that time
we've had the rank, raw invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.
And what can we do? We sit here, helpless. Perhaps even if we had the
forces there we wouldn't have done anything - but at least we would
have had an option. There's no option. What can you do when you're
7,000 miles away? Nothing.
    Let's make up our minds what kind of a country we want. Let's make
up our minds what kind of a country we want to live in. We have to
make up our minds what kind of leadership the United States has to
provide in the free world and for this world. Cause we're part of it.
We don't live isolated.
    Just remember that we grew up believing - most of us - that time and
distance were the two great allies of the United States, and they
were. We always had time to mobilize, we had time to marshal the
resources of this country - manpower and material in order to resist
the force ofe were always protected by distance and the breadth of the ocean
that surrounded us. So we were the most invulnerable people on earth
of any great nation.
    But today that situation has totally reversed in the last 15 years.
In the last 15 years time and distance no longer are our allies.
Today we're the most vulnerable people on earth. We've gone from the
most invulnerable tothe most vulnerable in 15 years. We're 30 minutes
away - time and distance are no longer helpful to us - we're 30
minutes away from devastation and destruction. That's how long it
takes the Russian ICBM to come from the Soviet Union to the United
States.
    And don't kid yourself, those ICBMs are not aimed at Mexico or
Central and South America, the African continent - they're aimed at
the United States. They're aimed at you and me. We have to remember
that. It's not going to change. The answer is in how do you keep them
from being launched? You keep them from being launched because you're
strong enough to let no potential enemy dare launch it because of the
fear of retaliation would be so great. And the certainty of
retaliation and retribution would be so strong and so great they
wouldn't to move. That's the only protection you have. And that's the
only protection we're ever going to have. You're never safe when you
lead from weakness and appeasement. Never!
    
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